re: Anyone quit smoking cigarettes?

whyquit.com worked for me after many failed attempts. Read through it and you will be successful.

Once you make up your mind just do it cold turkey. The key is to realize that the cravings though intense are short lived, like 10 minutes or so. Do something else when they hit, push ups helped me. After just a few days the duration and intensity of the cravings is greatly diminished. Sunflower seeds to keep busy helped as well as one of those apps that lists all of your accomplishments after quitting for 1 day, 1 week, etc…. I smoked 25 years and just gave them up cold turkey 10 years ago. I couldn’t smoke one without getting nauseous now if I tried.

Edited to add that the weaning, patches, etc just prolonged the agony and just pissed me off in my previous failed attempts. Just get the withdrawals over with. After that it’s just breaking habits.